Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Behavior and Health
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Entertainment Education for Behavior Change

This course examines and teaches ways in which education can be subtly but effectively worked into both new and time-honored genres of entertainment to foster positive behavior change and life improvement in both developing countries and local environments.

Global Tobacco Control

Presents the health and economic burden of tobacco use worldwide and highlights practical approaches to tobacco prevention, control, surveillance and evaluation.

Masculinity, Sexual Behavior and Health — New this month

Reading seminar focusing on male adolescent health and sexual issues and explores the meaning of masculinity and the impact of masculine beliefs on men's health and health care use.

Social and Behavioral Aspects of Public Health

The course is designed to help students develop basic literacy regarding social concepts and processes that influence health status and public health interventions.

Social and Behavioral Foundations of Primary Health Care

Aims at providing you with the knowledge and skills needed to diagnose (understand) community, individual, and organizational behaviors and change processes in developing countries and in cross-cultural settings as a foundation for planning culturally appropriate primary health care (PHC) in the context of the ecological model of health behavior.